Salt Lake City (May 22, 2013) – The Risk Management Association and Allen Communication have been recognized with a Silver Horizon Interactive Award for RMA’s Ethics Training Course. The RMA entry was chosen from over 1,000 entries from over 25 different countries.

The winning entry, developed with Allen Communication, is a course that helps banking and nonbanking institutions instill high standards of business conduct that are essential to maintaining trust in their institutions.

“The 2012 competition has, once again, raised the bar for future competitions,” Said, Mike Sauce- Founder of the Horizon Interactive Awards. “I can speak for the Judges by saying that we all were very impressed by the quality of the digital solutions by all of the entrants this year.

“We are excited that this course is being recognized by the Horizon Awards,” said Dom DIBernardi, Associate Director, Online Products and Programs at RMA. “At RMA we are dedicated to providing high quality training and learning tools to our member organizations and their employees. Our Ethics and Commercial Lending series of courses is unique in the profession.”

“This is the 3rd award that RMA has received for their Ethics Training course,” said Ron Zamir, CEO of Allen Communication. We are proud to have been a part of this highly engaging training program that is helping RMA to reach their business objectives.”

About RMA

Founded in 1914, The Risk Management Association is a not-for-profit, member-driven professional association whose sole purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry. RMA promotes an enterprise-wide approach to risk management that focuses on credit risk, market risk and operational risk. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, RMA has approximately 2,500 institutional members that include banks of all sizes as well as nonbank financial institutions. They are represented in the Association by 16,000 risk management professionals who are chapter members in financial centers throughout North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific.
RMA Contact: Kathleen M. Beans, Public Relations Manager, kbeans@rmahq.org, 215-446-4095.

About the Horizon Interactive Awards

In its 12th year, the Horizon Interactive Awards was created to recognize excellence in interactive media production worldwide. Since 2001, the competition has received tens of thousands of entries from countries around the world and nearly all 50 US States. Each year, those entries are narrowed down to the “best of the best” to be recognized and promoted on and international stage for their excellence. The judging process involves a Horizon Interactive Awards advisory panel, end user panel and a worldwide panel of judges consisting of industry professionals. Winning entries are dubbed the “best of the best” in the interactive media industry. For more information, visit www.horizoninteractiveawards.com.

About Allen Communication Learning Services

For over 30 years, Allen (www.allencomm.com) has developed award-winning training solutions for the world’s best companies. Designed for real impact on learner performance through sound instructional design, Allen’s proven Assure Methodology™ optimizes program results and maximizes return on your training dollar. Leveraging cutting edge technology to provide web-based training, blended training and mobile learning, as well as advanced LMS technology, Allen helps companies engage their learners like never before. Follow Allen on Twitter @Allencomm, on LinkedIn, and on Facebook.